Chapter of 'Alicia'

Chapter of 'Alicia'

1952-12-03

Gregorio C. Coching’s life (1892-1961) was bonded to the periodical press from a very young age. During his childhood, he sold newspapers to help his mother to make a living after his father’s death. Years later, in 1923, he won the first price in a writing contest organized by the magazine Liwayway, where he eventually worked and where he serialized many of his novels, such as Dama de noche and Nanay ko.

The novel Alicia was serialized in the magazine Bulaklak (meaning ‘flower’) between 1952 and 1953. Interestingly, this chapter talks about a little figure made of beeswax that resembled the protagonist, Alicia. This is also connected to Coching’s early life, as he used his hands to make engravings as a teen. The passage has the tone of the ending of mystery novels when the crime is explained away, the hypothesis unfolded and the evidence pointed at.

Bulaklak was first published in the Philippines on 14 April 1947 by the Social and Commercial Press, and was similar in content to Liwayway.

Coching, Gregorio C.  1952. Alicia. Bulaklak. December 3, 1952. Pp. 32-33, 66. In Open Access Repository @ UPD.

Gregorio C. Coching

Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository

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